Axel Willner’s career as the Field is like one mesmerizing fractal. Whether scanning over his entire discography of ambient techno, looking at the flow of a particular album, or focusing in on a single song, you see the same shape, with repetition and gradual evolution dominant at every scale. Yes, Cupid’s Head is a return to the same sound he perfected on his debut and continued on later albums, though with a subtly gloomier flavor. That chillier quality dominates in the acid house coda of “Black Sea” or the buzzing drones and vocal skips of “No. No…” but it’s also a record laced with unbearable beauty. The blurry closer “20 Seconds Of Affection” ends with hope, and “A Guided Tour,” one of the very best songs of Willner’s career, glows brightly in the center. Built of mantras as much as melodies, Cupid’s Head is pure joy in which to get lost. –Miles [LISTEN]